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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-26
HON. L. j. ROSE.
Member of the Senate from the Thirty
ninth District, Los Angeles.

Few men are better or more favOrably
known in California than Hon. l.. j. Rose
He is one of the largest landed proprietors
in Los Angeles county, and one of the ear
hest and most extensively engaged orange
and wine growers. His beau iful estate he
has recently placed under control of syn
dictate of purchasers, but he is still related
TO the estate. Mr.. Rose is native of Ger
many, where he was born in 1927. He re-
sided i'm Illinois and Iowa prior
to coming to California. He
was educated at Shurtlitf College, Alton,
III. Up to 1856 he was engaged IN mer-
chandising. He came to California in
1860, and here, as noted, has devoted him
self mainly to fruit and vine growing, and
wine and brandy making, at his beautiful
place, Sunny Slope in the San Gabriel val
ley Especially in the manufacture of
brandy has Mr.. Rose been successful. In
deed, he has exceeded i'll the distiliation of
brandy, all other makers, and his brands
are probably better known and more in de-
mand in the United States than any other
native brandy product, and as CONNER
cial article sells at higher figure. With
strong tastes for the cultivation of fine
stock, he has largely devoted himself
to the culture of the trotting horse
and the breeding of Durham cattle.
He can justly claim first place in the
foremost rank among successful stock
breeders in the United States, and notably
for his achievements in breeding blooded
horses, whether the result is to be measured
by the time record of the animals or by mon
etary considerations. Mr. Rose has carried
on an extensive wine business in New York,
Chicago and Boston. and was one of the
first to introduce California wines for sale
in quantities in those cities. He is Pres-
dent of the OrangeGrowers' Protective
Union, has tor many years been an active
and highly valued member OF the State
Board of Agriculture, and is one of the
State Viticuliural Commissioners. In the
Legislature Mr.. Rose has the honor of be-
ing the author of the chief measure to en-
courage arboriculure, and to protect Cali
fornia forests He is also the author of
important irrigation and viticultural meas
ures. lie is a man OF quiet habit, bat of
decision of character, sound business judg-
ment, and Just instincts. He stands high
in the esteem of the people, and is every
where recognized as an upright citizen Of
unim peachable integrity.
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HON. A. It. JONES.
Member of the Senate from the Fourth
District. Butte.


Hon Albert Foster Jones represents
Butte county in the Senate (the Fourth Dis
trict). He is one of the representative
young men CT the north of the State, hav-
ing been born in Colusa county, February
IA, 1858. He resided in that county for ten
years, when he removed to Chico, Butte
county, residing there until 1880, when he
changed his residence to Oroville, in the
same county. Mr. Jones was married
Christmas Day, 1881, and has one child
He received a common school education
until 1873, when he went to University
Mound College for one year, entering old
Yale at the close of that period, from
which he was graduated with high honors
and the degree of Ii B. in June, 1879
Since leaving college he has taken the pro-
fession of the law as his calling for life
and now practices in all the Courts of the
State. His prominence among the youths
of the State brought him into that bene-
fetal and reforming organization, the
Native Sons of the Golden West, of which
he was Past Grand President in ISL In
that Order he is held in especially high es-
TEEN. In the years 9Sl-S2 he was District
Attorney of Butte county. In 1886 he
was chosen by the people of Butte to be
their State Senator. Senator Jones holds
the rank of Lieutenant-C Colonel and Aid
de. Camp upon the staff OF Governor Bart
lett He is member of the Oroville Citrus
Association, and large owner in the
Abietine Medical Company, of Oroville,
and is interested in various prominent fruit
and mining enterprises in Butte county.
He is Chairman of the Committee on State
Prisons and Prison Buildings, and the ait
thor of the report of the committee. He
is also Chairman of the Senate Committee
ON Federal Relations, Chairman of the
Joint Inaugural Committee and Chairman
of the Joint Committee of Nevada and
California Legislatures on Fish and Game,
which met at Reno February Is, 1887.
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HON. PATRICK j. MURPHY.
Senator from the Twenty fourth District
San Francisco.

Senator from the Twenty fourth District,
San Francisco.
Patrick J. Murphy was born in Brooklyn,
n. Y. in September, 1919, and resided there
until 1866. when he came to California and
took up his residence in San Francisco. He
received his education in the public schools
his native city and New York. He en-
tered the profession OF journalism when
Henry George commenced the publica-
ton OF the Erening Post in 1871,
and was for twelve years city ed
itor of that journal, and has been
Connected with it up to the time of the
present session. During the last four years
lie has also acted as Secretary of the Pilot
Commission, which position he resigned
before entering upon his Senatorial duties.
Senator Murphy is married and has fam
lily of four children. He is one of the most
active and vigilant members of the present
Senate, his long experience as legislative
correspondent having revealed to him all
the mysteries or miseries' connected with
legislation. He is the author of the fire.
mems relief bill, and the bill to provide
for the completion of the new City Hall of
San Francisco, both OF which measures are
sure to become laws. Mr.. Murphy has
also taken an active part in the debate on
matters connected with prison management
and other important subjects. He is a
ready and fluent debater and in all respects
an industrious and useful representative OF
the people. As a writer, journalist and
student he is second to none. He is re-
earded as being not only brilliant, but a
sound writer, and his articles never failed
of having great weight in the reform OF
abuse or the promotion OF measures OF ben
eft 10 the community.
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HON. a. WALRATH.
Sen ator from the Fifth Dis rict, Nevada
County,

County.
A Walrath, the gentleman who repre-
sents Nevada county in the upper branch
of the Legislature, is native of New York,
and 46 wears of age. He came TO California
in 1852, and for the past nine years has been
prominent citizen of Nevada county,
where he is largely interested in mining
enterprises. He has represented his county
at two..regular and two extra sessions OF the
Legislature, and is, therefore, well up in
legislative matters. He is a Republican,
and gentleman of great pushing energy,
as we'll as more than ordinary ability. Heis
well versed in the politics ana legislative
history of the State, and is wideawake
champion of the mining interests As a
debater he is ready, prompt and effective.
and IS seldom, if ever, caught mapping
when important measures are being c6nsid-
cred. He is the author of the bill now
pending in the Senate to authorize the con-
struction of dams across the mountain can
yons for the purpose of iinpounding debris
from the hydraulic mines. and over the
fate Of which he is as solictous as a young
mother for her first-born babe. In lis de-
Tense he is uncompromising and even az
gressive, and if it should fail 10 become n
law the fault will not lay at the door of Ne
vada countv's Senator. Mr. Walrath is a
married man. He is no: only an effective
speaker when warmed to his subject, but is
something of a humorist, and frequently
enlivens the dull routine of the Senate by
pungent joke or bit of sarcasm at the ex
pense of some brother Senator. Nevada
county has in Mr.. Walrath a first-class re-
preventative, an earnest and conscientious
man. and one in whom his constituency
may at all times safely c1nlide their inter.
ests in the legislative halls. There is much
strength added to "a representative from ex
perience in legislative work, and there are
few perhaps who have more influence from
familiarity with active legislative service
than the Senator from Nevada county.
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Hon. A. L. CHANDLER.
Senator from the Twelfth District, Yuba
and Suffer-.

Hon. 4. L. Chandler is a man known far
and wide throughout California for his
high character. his sterling ability, his rep
resentative character of agricultural in
teres,s. He was born in Vermont in the
year 1881, and came 10 California in May
1852, settliug in Nicolaus township, Suffer
county, where he has had his home since
then. he is a married man, and has six
children. lie is an old-line Republican
and one of the most reliable and LOYAL
leaders in that party. Mr.. Chandler has
served the people in eight sessions of the
Legislature, three in the Assembly and five
in the Senate. Perhaps no legislator in the
State can show parallel record OF such
implicit trust by the people, and such
emphatic Endorsement of we'll
spent life. While he is now farmer
and stock raiser, in early life Mr.
Chandler taught school, and even after he
came to California, and he has it to say
that he knows what hard work is as a
laborer also, and in numbering and team
ing He received his education in the
common schools of his natiTe State. He has
been Director of the Farmers Co-opera-
tive Union of Suffer county since 1878. He
is man of reserved habit, slow TO speech,
but what he utters commands the respect
that is inspired always by experience, cool
judgment. broad powers OF observation,
and love for humanity. Mr.. Chan
dIer is conspicuous for his devotion
to the best interests of the State. and the
self-sacrifice that has characterized his ca
reer in advancing California. Senator
Chandler is Justly regarded as the . Father
of the Senate, owing to his long expert.
ence in that body and his extreme watch
fitness over the interests of the State and
the people. He is generous toward all
worthy public institutions requiring State
safe criterion for their guidance. As a
speaker, Senator Chandler is effective and
convincing. be deals in but few figures of
speech, but is plain and explicit in all
things.
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born February II, 1855. While an infant
the fortunes of immigration brought his
family to California where he has resided
ever since. He was raised in the beautiful
valley of Napa, but spent II years of his
life in Mariposa county. He received his
education in the common schools of the
State, and completed it in the Napa Col
legiate Institute He began active life for
himself as teacher at the early age of Is,
and followed that vocation to his 22d year.
Subsequently he studied law, and
was admitted to the bar, and
his livelihood Is now gained
by practice in that honorable profession.
In 1877 he was elected District Attorney
for Mariposa county, and was re- elected in
1879 and 1882. In 1884 he was elected to
represent Mariposa and MERGED in the As
sembly, Withdrawing from the Electoral
ticket of his party, the Democracy, in order
to make the run. He has been chosen a
delegate to every Democratic State Conven-
ton since 1879. The people of Mariposa
selected him to serve them in the Board of
Education for two years. His ability has
also been recognized by appointment as one
of the Commissioners to manage, for the
State. the Yosemite Valley and the Maripo-
sa big tree grove" Mr. Goucher has been
constantly an earnest and able advocate
| OF irrigation measures, and has warmly es-
poused the cause OF labor also and all
bills in the interest of popular education,
and has been an especial friend of
charitable and benevolent institutions
| In advocating irrigation measures, Mr..
Goucher has at all times recognized the
great difficulty in which the question is in
volved, and fully comprehended the vast
importance of the irrigation issues with
which the people are so familiar. Mr.
Goucher is married man, and of strong
domestic tastes.
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Biographical Sketches Of Sen
atorS and AsSemblymen.
THE LEGISLATURE OF 1887.
Personal Notes Concerning Each
Member and OF State Off
GERS, and Brief Sketches
Of Public Services.

Following is brief biographical sketch
of the men bers comprising the Twenty
eighth session Of the Legislature of Califor-
mia, elected in the fall of 1886, and which
session opened on the Sd day of January,
1887. The Senate is composed of forty
members, and the Assembly of eighty.
The politics of the two houses are: Senate
20 Democrats and IA Republicans; AS
sembly-39 Democrats and Al Republicans
As to nationality. 105 were born within the
United States, and Is are of foreign birth
OF the 105, 40 were of foreign parentage
Among the professions and trades repre-
scented by the present Legislative body, are
Lawyers, %; agriculturists and viticult
wrists, 81; physicians, s.; teachers, 5
miners, 4; stock-raisers, 4; minister, l, and
miscellaneous, 50.
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HON. HENRY G. GEsFORD.
Member of the Senate from the Ninth
District, Napa and Yolo.

DIstflCtt NdDd anu 1910.
Henry C. Gesford, who represents the
Ninth Senatorial District, comprising the
counties of Napa and Yolo ranks among
the foremost members of the Senate He
was born near ST. Helena. Napa county. on
the 18th of June, 1856, his parents having
settled in that vicinity in 1S49, and who
still reside in the same county. Senator
Gesford received his early education in the
public schools of Napa and the Napa Col
lege. At the age of seventeen he entered
upon the profession of teaching in Napa
county, and having accumulated sufficient
means to enable him to attend the Normal
School at San Jose, he entered that insti-
tuition, and graduated therefrom in 1876.
He again taught school for time in Napa,
and was elected Superintendent of Schools
of that county at the age of twenty one
years. Subsequently he entered the Iowa
State University, and graduated therefrom in
1881, after which he entered the law de-
pariment of the University of Michigan.
graduating among the first of his class in
1882. Returning to Napa he entered upon
the practice of the law, and has succeeded
in building up lucrative practice, being
associated with d. II. Pinney, late Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ari-
IONA. Mr.. Gesford's family consists Of
wife and one child, TO whom he is fondly
devoted. He is a prominent member of
the Native Sons of the Golden West being
ID. d. @. z. for Napa county. During the
present session Mr.. Gesford has served as
Chairman of the Committee on Education.
and also of Banks and Banking, and is,
besides, a member of several other import
ant committees. Senator Gesford is
Democrat, and in this respec, differs from
the other members of his family, who are
all Republicans. In him Napa has
| worthy representative on the floor of the
Senate, where her " favorite sons have
in years gone by held prominent
places among the foremost legislat-
ors of the State. Although repre-
sented in the past by such men as
Edgerton, Pendegast, Spencer and others
of eminent ability. Napa may well feel
proud of her present young Senator, who
is one of the most influential members of
the Senate, and is an orator of unusual
brilliancy. This is virtually his first en-
trance into State politics. but he is enc
whose rare gifts of oIatory and solid talents
will be certain to force him to the front in
future political campaigns.
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ASSEMBLY.
HON. L. Il. ADAMS.
Member of the Assembly from the TWEEN
ty-first District, Yolo.


ty-frst District, Yolo.
Hon. l.. b. Adams, who represents the
county of Yolo in the Assembly, is a Dem
ocrat, and one of the ablest Representatives
of that party on the floor of the House.
He is the tallest member, standing over six
feet with his slippers off. is well formed,
and wears his-whiskers Ia Burnside. His
name. is the first on the roll-call, and he
never asks to have his name passed, but
votes aye or no on every proposition, ac-
corGing to the merits of the measure under
consideration. He was born in the State OF
Ohio his parents being natives of Ken
lucky. When he first came to the State he
embarked in mining. He soon gave up
the search for the tickle goddess with pick
and shovel and turned his attention to
farming. He never before held position
higher than that of School Trustee, and
says if the good Lord will forgive him for
coming to this Legislature he will never do
SO again. He is honest, upright and honor
able, and the queer methods and question
able acts of political statesmen have SO
thoroughly disguised him, that he is
ashamed of the company he keeps. He
makes no pretense at Oratory, bIlt investi-
gates every measure brought before the
House, and sets down upon every
bill that has the appearance OF
being "cinch measure" or that
he thinks has a Niger" hidden
away in the pickets. As debater he is
not Prescriptions, but says what he be-
lieyes to be right in very few words, and is
highly respected By the conservative ele-
ment in the Assembly. He has made an
honest, clear record, and one which his
Yolo constituency cannot fail to appreciate
Heis member of the following commit
tees: County and County Boundaries,
Roads and Highways, Swamp and Over
flowed lands
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HON. j. NJ. BRICELAND.
Senator from Second District, Trinity,
Siskiyou and Shasta.

Senator from Second District, Trinity,
Siskiyou and Shasta.
Hon. ]. NJ. Brcelaud represents the three
most northerly counties of California,
counties that are yet to be brought into
full development, and which are just en-
tering upon an era of prosperity, settle
ment and exposure of unreasonable rich
resources. Dr. Briceland was born in
Edgington, Brook county, West Vir-
ginia He came to California in October
1889; is married, and has bis home
in Shasta. He received his finishing edu-
cation at Jefferson College, Philadelphia,
being graduated a physician from that in
stitution. Dr. Briceland is prominent in
his section for public spirit and progress
sive disposition. He has served with dis
tinguished honor as member of the State
Board of Health. He was sent to the Leg
islature to serve in the Assembly of 1879 rs,
and again in 1882, and finally as Senator
DIR. Briceland has been the especial cham
pion i'll the Senate of all measures in the
interest of public institutions for the care
and maintenance of the sick and other I'M
fortunate wards of the State, as we'll as of
the measures proposed to strengthen the
hands of the State Board of Health in
warding off dangerous and infectious dis
eases. Senator Briceland has also made a
vigorous fight for his bill to establish a
Branch State Normal School in Shasta
county, but the combined influence of
neighboring counties has carried the day
against him in the Senate. although he has
not yet relinquished his hope of finally
scoring victory. DR.. Briceland is gen.
tleman of ripe judgment, and his remarks
invariably command the respectful atten-
ton of his brother Senators. In politics he
is Democrat
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HON. j. Il. DRIERLY.
Member of the Assembly from the Sew
enty-sixfh District. Los ArceIes


No county in the State is better repre-
scented i'll the Assembly than is Los An
geles by the Hon. John Ryland Briefly
He is the peer of any man in that august
body any way you want to take him. He
is the most versatile, if The expression is
admissible, for he exhibits every phase of
statesman. Re has all abundance of wit,
fund of whitening sarcasm, an answer
for every question, a cHncher on every
argument, and always Chains the right to
the last word. He is b!ainv, represent
alive man, such as are but seldom found
in the lower House of our State Legis-
latures. He was born at Great Falls. \.
H., July l6, 1899. His father, Rev Benia-
min Briefly, was born in England, and
his mother in New Hampshire Mr..
Briefly has been in California since
May, 1852; in his present county,
from 1860 TO 1868, and from January, 1870.
to date. In early life he was teacher in
the public schools for ten years, and holds
California life diploma. He was farmer
for six years. He has recently retired from
the office of Collector of Customs. He was
Superintendent of Schools of Santa Clara
county; United States Gauger from 1873 to
1876; Assistant Secretary of the Senate in
1850; Collector of Customs. District of VIII
mington, Cal, from November, 1882, TO
October 1886, and Clerk OF the Board of
Trustees of the San Pedro School District,
Los Angeles, Tor the past three years. No
man in the State has better knowledge of
our public schools aud educational institu-
tons, and Speaker Jordan used good iudg-
ment in appointing him Chairman OF the
Committee on Education, one of the most
important committees of the House.
He is stanch Republican, and
often crosses swords in friendly
tilt with Judge Heath, who loves
to talk of Jefferson and Jackson. Mr.. BIZ
eriy has secured the passage Of bill giving
his county two additional Superior Judges,
succeeded in getting half dozen junkeIing
committees to Los Angeles, and never fails
to expatiate on the Beauties of the scenery,
the healthfulness of the climate and the
glorious oranges of his section whenever
he makes speech. He is a good, honest,
honorable, Woodworking and capable rep
resentative, and a constituency that sends
such men to the Legislature is deserving of
success and entitled to a boom. He is the
heaviest man in the Legislature, puts on
the least style of any one, is Speaker pro
tenn. good pariamentarian aud an excel
lent presiding officer,
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HON. cHAs. o. ALEXANDER.
Member of the Assembly from the Fifty
sixth District, Alameda

The Fifty-si1th Assembly District is
represented by the Hon. Charles o.
Alexander, of Oakland, young man,
but one who has proven himself
to be a wise and competent legisla-
tor; one who has made record upon
which he can stand one which his Re-
publican constituency can and will in
dorse. He was born in Milwaukee, Wis
consin, March 26, 1861, and came to Cali
fornia in 1876; resides in the city of Oak
land, where he is engaged as a commission
merchant. This is his first official posi-
ton, but judging from the manner in
which its duties are discharged. it will not
be his last, for he is worthy and capable of
filing a much more exalted position than
that of Assemblyman. He is highly edu-
Gated, having graduated with honors from
the State University, and attending school
in Europe for two years. He was appointed
Chairman of one of the most important
committees in the House, that of Corpo-
ratioDs, and is also q member of the Com
mittees On Commerce and Navigation
Municipal Corporations and State Library.
In the Committee on Corporations and on
the floor of the House his activity, his
earnest adherence to honest and Just prin-
ciples, bis answering adherence to right,
and his indomitable, perseverance, energy
and tact have accomplished great deal
and the thanks of the people Of his dis
trict are due for the jealous care bestowed
on their interests. He is at present I'M
married, but young man of his ability
and good looks will hardly turn up single
at the next session. Mr.. Alexander is a
good debater, logical in his argu ments, snd
ever has an eye to the best interests of the
whole people. He is particularly enthusi-
astic in the maintenance of or educational
institutions, and particularly those at
Berkeley.